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Bingo of crappy IT processes
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The estimate is not a promise, it's a guess. I prefer to estimate in sprints because that's about the resolution we can have confidence in, but management want hours so my process is to estimate the number of hours in a sprint (73.5 for us) plus one sprint
200% overruns are common, especially when requirements change significantly